# Do you still have an old fashioned Drugstore with Lunch Counter in your Town? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 9, 2010, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-an-old-fashioned-drugstore-with-lunch-counter-in-your-town/563479 "2010-12-09T00:01:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2010, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-an-old-fashioned-drugstore-with-lunch-counter-in-your-town/563479/41 "2010-12-15T16:33:45Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > When I was a kid growing up in Decatur, GA, we would ride our bikes out to Stone Mountain. At the time there was a great soda fountain there. I’m not sure what’s become of it. Even back then it had prices that we’re pretty fantastic, like nickel ice cream and 25 cent malts and shakes. This was in the late 70s. No soda fountains there any more to my knowledge. And I ride my bike out there sometimes myself. (There’s a bike route that runs from Atlanta out to Stone Mountain.) ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2010, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-an-old-fashioned-drugstore-with-lunch-counter-in-your-town/563479/42 "2010-12-15T17:01:21Z")
There was one in downtown Pittsburgh in the mid-Seventies when I was having my braces worked on by a orthodontist nearby. Haven’t seen one anywhere since then. Lunch counters always remind me of the sit-ins during the Civil Rights Movement: [http://cdn1.newsone.com/files/2010/02/greensboro-sit-in.jpg](http://cdn1.newsone.com/files/2010/02/greensboro-sit-in.jpg) [http://www.sitinmovement.org/images/sub/sit-in-movement-9.jpg](http://www.sitinmovement.org/images/sub/sit-in-movement-9.jpg) [http://www1.american.edu/bgriff/H207web/civrights/sit-ins1963.gif](http://www1.american.edu/bgriff/H207web/civrights/sit-ins1963.gif) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2010, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-an-old-fashioned-drugstore-with-lunch-counter-in-your-town/563479/43 "2010-12-15T17:16:32Z")
No, my home town in NJ had one of these for many years. The pharmacy got bought by a big chain, which promptly built another on the state highway and closed the one in town. The store was empty for a couple of years, but just re-opened as a Dunkin Donuts. (That still amazes me. Aside from our banks and convenience stores, it’s the only representative of a large-region chain in town.) ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2010, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-an-old-fashioned-drugstore-with-lunch-counter-in-your-town/563479/44 "2010-12-15T18:33:43Z")
You know, when you step back and look at it objectively a drug store seems like a really odd place to have a lunch counter. (And yeah, I realize it started with the birth of sodas as medicinal concoctions. Still. Seems odd.) And it also seems like a really good way for the flu to spread. “Hey, let’s march all these sick, sniffling, sneezing people right past the spot where the community gathers for lunch! That seems like a _great_ idea!” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-an-old-fashioned-drugstore-with-lunch-counter-in-your-town/563479/45 "2010-12-16T01:36:45Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > Huh? I don’t understand a word of this. You wrote: “There’s a really old K-Mart here that has, waaay in the back, some kind of eating area.” You added: “It’s the only K-Mart left that still has a place to sit and eat.” On the off-chance that you actually believed the _‘really old K-Mart with some kind of eating area waaay in the back’_ truly **was** the only K-Mart left that in fact still has a place to sit and eat, I wanted to relay that, er, no, the local K-Mart likewise has an eating area – right over by the soda fountain, same wall as the pharmacy. I didn’t think you were being literal, but I wasn’t 100% sure. ---
**Author:** ![Rucksinator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/898d66/32.png) [@Rucksinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rucksinator)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-an-old-fashioned-drugstore-with-lunch-counter-in-your-town/563479/46 "2010-12-16T22:52:20Z")
Anybody know if Creech Drug store is still open in Harlan, KY? I haven’t been there since the early 90’s. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-still-have-an-old-fashioned-drugstore-with-lunch-counter-in-your-town/563479.md?page=2)